who joins us now. good morning representative. >> caller: good morning. >> stephanie: i have to ask you first, we've been talking about john boehner rejecting the president's request to extend the middle class tax cuts. don't you feel like, here we go again, like the election didn't happen. >> caller: i'm fearful of that. i think it's more complicated because i think my sense boehner would like to reach an agreement because he understands the real world, and there will be yet another huge price for his conference. but if you remember when he was negotiating the grand bargain with the president during the debt ceiling negotiations, and was willing to include revenue wehe went back to his conference, and they literally cut his legs off. he's filling that position. that's the dilemma. this fiscal cliff stuff is extremely important, but this is the moment of opportunity to have revenue as a very significant component of any debt reduction deal, and it has to be. the president is on strong ground, and he's